The Delhi government conducted two cloud seeding trials on Tuesday to induce artificial rain in the capital as part of measures to curb deteriorating pollution levels. However, the two sorties from Kanpur and Meerut failed to induce rain as of Tuesday evening. The trials were conducted in the national capital using a Cessna aircraft fitted with salt-based and silver iodide flares to induce rain.

Manindra Agrawal, Director of IIT Kanpur, said the trials were not completely successful as the flares fired from the aircraft failed to produce any rain. The clouds that are present today do not have very high moisture content. The moisture content predicted by IMD was low, at around 10-15 percent, which is not ideal for cloud seeding. Agrawal echoed similar concerns and said that though the capi

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